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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

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A holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

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Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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